"Boya, Zijing, here is the enemy army intelligence from Zilong's sentinel, there are more than 20,000 enemy troops on the Changli side, twice as many as our army, mainly the diehard rebels in Wuhuan. There are still 20,000 in Xiangping (Liaoyang), and the enemy is outnumbered, how to break the enemy? ”

After Liu Bei called Li Su and Lu Su over, he also got straight to the point and asked the topic.

Lu Su previously served as the Cheng of Jixian County, and after being transferred to Liaodong, he was recommended by Liu Bei as the commander of Changli County, but he has not been given money so far, and he has not taken office - because Changli County is still in the hands of the enemy, and Lu Su can only take office if he is attacked.

From the order of a state-level county to a county-level county, it can be regarded as a half-step promotion, Lu Su is still very satisfied with this appointment, and he is grateful to Liu Bei for his support, how difficult it is to be able to do the county order at the age of eighteen.

At this moment, Lu Su's performance was more positive than Li Su: "Fujun, the enemy is outnumbered, and our army has Mizhu sea route to transport grain, which is naturally beneficial to the siege, just like when Qiu Liju dealt with Gongsun Zan last year."

Now that the first month of the year is coming to an end, it will soon be spring ploughing, and during the spring famine, there is no military food supplement for at least 100 days, so we can only sit and eat empty mountains.

If you keep the law, you have the confidence to break the enemy in a defensive battle, and you can even use the military situation of our army to lure the enemy army to come and intercept the grain, so that it is easy to attack and defend. Our army is 10,000, and if we rely on a strong camp defense, it is not impossible to defeat 20,000 enemy troops. ”

Cao Cao's strategy to rob the black nest has always been positive and negative, Cao Cao's destruction of the black nest is of course a stroke of genius, but if Yuan Shao can take the initiative to set up an ambush in the black nest and release false information to invite Cao Cao to rob, then maybe Cao Cao will die too much to die again.

What Lu Su thought of was obviously this negative variant.

Liu Bei also thought deeply when he heard this, bowed his head slightly, and turned to Li Su: "Boya, what do you think?" ”

Li Su smiled awkwardly: "The military strategy battle formation is not my strength." In this kind of warfare, we can no longer drive a wedge between the enemy, and I really can't think of any clever plan. It's good to see what Zijing said, as long as the implementation is safe, there should be a profit. ”

Liu Bei patted Li Su on the shoulder encouragingly: "There are also times when Boya is poor, it's really rare." ”

Li Su: "There is a precedence in hearing the Tao, and there is a specialization in the art industry, how can there be an all-knowing and all-powerful person." ”

Lu Su: "......"

How can this Li Boya speak, even if it is a daily chat, he will inadvertently pop out of a stroke of genius? It's really brilliant. It's just that people are not the kind of rotten Confucians in the world who look for chapters and sentences, they are really talented, and at the same time their writing is good.

Liu Bei finally ordered: "In this case, Ling Zijing is responsible for setting up a water village at the mouth of the Xiaoyushui River, and expanding the wharf, stockpiling the grain and grass that will be transported from the coast of the sea in the future. ”

Although Zhang Chunjun got rid of the food burden of more than 100,000 people in the Zhang Ju era, it shrank to 40,000 or 50,000 people. However, last year's harvest was bad and the general situation of grain shortage in eastern Liaoning has not changed, so the spring famine will definitely be difficult.

Liu Bei believed in the attraction of military rations to the enemy.

"Subordinates receive orders." Lu Su immediately went to execute.

Li Su continued to stay by Liu Bei's side, discussing progress and waiting for opportunities every day.

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In the following days, Lusu progressed smoothly, and the enemy did not take the initiative to cross the Xiaoyu River to attack Lusu at all, because the enemy army was also afraid of being "attacked by the Han army halfway through" when they crossed the river.

The two armies confronted each other across the river, and it must be who took the initiative to cross the river and who suffered, and the rebels thought that the Han army would take the initiative to attack, so of course they would not do anything more.

At the end of January, Lusu's water village was basically built, and the first batch of military rations from Mizhu was also transported to the front line, and it seemed that the problem of food shortage in Liu Bei's army had been solved.

Liu Bei is still very rich now, and after the operation of buying the Marquis to buy Liaodong Xiang in January, there are still more than 300 million, so he directly asked Mi Zhu to go to Bohai County, Jizhou, where grain is cheap, to buy grain, and send it north along the Bohai Coast after buying it.

This is equivalent to transporting from Jinmen to Jinzhou in later generations, and the loss of sea transportation is very small.

The first batch of 100,000 stone of military rations, together with the freight, arrived at the shore price of the front line in Tuhe County, which was only 40 million yuan.

According to the calculation that each soldier consumes a bucket of coarse grain every two days, these 100,000 stones are enough for Liu Bei's 10,000 soldiers and horses to eat for more than half a year, and Mi Zhu can be transported again at any time.

While the front line was facing each other across the river, Liu Bei and Li Su discovered a new situation.

That is, with the arrival of the Han army, in just a few days, a large number of displaced people who had fled the famine before, and even were homeless and waiting to die after being robbed of rations by the rebels, began to gather at the Han army camp after hearing the news.

Li Su, in line with the idea of utilitarianism, was reluctant to accept these people who had been washed up by the rebels at this time.

Because the people stayed on the rebels' side, they could consume the rebels' food, and after being stripped clean and rushed to Liu Bei's side, they had to eat Liu Bei's military rations.

In addition, last year, Liu Bei received more than 20,000 prisoners from Zhang Ju and expanded the army by 5,000 people, but the rest were not dismissed, but temporarily served as auxiliaries and civilian men who provided logistics and food.

"Brother must not have the kindness of a woman, now is a critical moment in the military situation, at this time for disaster relief, that is, the pain and revenge are happy, and the rebels will definitely intensify their persecution of the people in the enemy-occupied areas, loot them until they are left, and then drive them to our side. It's unimaginable. ”

When he followed Liu Bei to inspect the camp, looking at the camp spontaneously formed by the homeless people on both sides of the Xiaoyu River, Li Su had to advise.

Although he also knew that these people were indeed miserable. However, accepting these people undoubtedly means that the war to recover Liaodong will be delayed. If the ordinary year is delayed in the future, then it will be fine, but this year is the last year before the death of Emperor Han Ling, and every day of this year's meritorious service and layout time are very precious.

One more step up this year may be worth three steps in the future era of separation.

In later generations, Sima Yiping Liaodong Gongsun Yuan, the battle ended in 100 days, and if Liu Bei accepted the hungry people, he would definitely not be able to fight in 100 days, and it would become a more protracted battle in Tuntian.

It's a pity that Li Su persuaded again and again, and Liu Bei's old mistake was committed.

After repeatedly watching the tragic situation of the victims, Liu Bei said a utopian truth in front of Li Su, Guan Zhang, Lu Su, Tian Chou, and Mi Zhu:

"The great affairs of Fuji must be people-oriented, and now the people will return to me, how can I bear to abandon them! There are tens of thousands of living beings here, how can we sacrifice for a quick victory, if we sacrifice these people, what is the use of us getting an empty Liaodong? ”

Li Su: "......"

He kind of understood Zhuge Liang's depression when Yang was defeated.

That's it, this sentence is still said after all, and I am afraid that there will be no market for the quick victory of the people.

But fortunately, the situation Li Su is facing now is much better than that of Zhuge Liang when he was Yang Changsaka, it is nothing more than a little slower meritorious service and a waste of golden time to climb to the official position, but he can still win.

Liu Bei is a person who refuses to give up the problem of harming Li Min, I am afraid that it is brought out of my mother's womb, and I will not be able to change it in this life.

"Brother...... Rende, let's think about it in the long run. Li Su sighed and gave up.

However, only Li Su is so calm as an iron-hearted person, and the other Guan Zhang Lusu next to him feels that Liu Bei has done the right thing, and his morale is high, and he has praised him for his benevolence, righteousness and love for the people, which is admirable.

Lu Su was even more like a chicken blood, his brain was full of power, and he searched his intestines and scraped his stomach and thought: "Fujun, since you have decided to accept the displaced people, it is only the beginning of February now, and you can still catch up with the spring ploughing, why don't you organize these people to cultivate themselves here?"

I see that the two counties of Yangle and Tuhe have a large population, and there is a certain foundation for the development of fields, especially on both sides of the Yushui River, which is the best fertile and fertile land within hundreds of miles from western Liaoning. If you want to support the people, you can't raise them in vain, so you should let Mi Zhishu work hard, transport half a year's grain, and carry these people to the autumn harvest in August, and then you can feed back in double. ”

Li Su sighed on the side: "How can we survive until the autumn harvest in August and not kill Zhang Chun?" When the time comes, there will be food, but it will only be to backfill the deficit, which will not help the war. It can only be regarded as a stop-loss strategy, so as not to let the people be idle in vain.

In my opinion, it is possible to rent all the ox carts and animals that were originally sent by land to carry grain to the people on the spot, and collect the cattle rent equivalent to 40% of the harvest from the people at the time of the autumn harvest. Cattle do not need to be one per household, and can be rented to the common people or five or six households, or more than ten people. If it is still necessary for the officers and soldiers to provide rations and seeds to tide over the spring famine, the arrears of rations will be doubled after the autumn harvest. ”

This is also a method of stopping losses, which is already a bit similar to the Tuntian strategy that Mao Jue thought of for Cao Cao later.

However, Li Su didn't want Tuntian's plan to be leaked too early, so he made a little optimization, only popularizing "renting cattle" as a rule, and at the same time reducing the tax to 40%, so as not to be noticed by the world.

In the genuine tuntian, the government collects at least half of the harvest, but it is also more organized by the people, giving farm tools and seeds in addition to cattle.

And because Liu Beijun intercepted the proceeds of Zhang Ju's plunder in Bohai County last year, there are a lot of cattle left, and in addition to selling them for Mi Zhu for money, he still retains nearly 2,000 heads that have not been sold out, as pack animals for pulling carts to transport military supplies.

In this way, Liu Bei's change from a heavy cattle to a rented cattle can also be said to be an expedient measure, and others will not pay attention to it at all.

In addition, the method of renting cattle is also longer than the tuntian system, and it can be more delicate and long-lasting, and later generations have implemented the cattle renting law in order to quickly raise military rations and give the displaced people a way to live.

The advantage of the cattle rent law is that it is lighter and simpler than Tuntian, easy to operate, and has less space for Tuntian officials to exploit the people.

Because of the complete version of the tuntian system, sometimes after the first two years of hardship have passed, the people already have a certain amount of food ration savings and seeds left during the spring famine. However, in order to overcharge interest, the tuntian officials often forcibly apportioned and lent the seeds to the people, regardless of whether the people needed seeds or not, and doubled or even tripled them back during the autumn harvest.

This drawback is the same as Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law in the Song Dynasty, which was forcibly apportioned at the implementation level, so that the people who were not short of food were also saddled with usury.

In contrast, cattle have always been a very luxurious property for the vast majority of the people, and they cannot make full use of the labor of a cow when each household has only a few dozen acres of land and a maximum of 100 acres. Therefore, cattle must be lacking by the people, and renting cattle does not have the problem of apportionment to the people.

In this way, Li Su improved the tuntian system into "rations, seeds, and farm tools, and only rented them to the people and collected usury interest only in the early years of the catastrophe and when the people really had nothing." When the people are relieved and these things can be self-sufficient and do not want to pay usury, they will only rent cattle."

Of course, under the administrative efficiency of the feudal era, no system can be completely free of drawbacks and blind spots, and the cattle rental system is much less labor-saving than the tuntian system, but there will be problems after a long time.

At the beginning of the five dynasties of the Later Liang, Zhu Wen rented cattle near Bianliang, and later the Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty also continued to collect the cattle rent from Zhu Wen's rented cattle. But in fact, because decades have passed, many cattle have died of old age, and the common people have not used cattle, and they are still paying up to 40% of the harvest in cattle rent.

It wasn't until Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong ascended the throne that Chai Rong, who was aware of the people's feelings, went deep into the people to sort out the cattle situation, and after a big census, the cattle households of the old and dead cattle were exempted from rent.

However, these drawbacks have nothing to do with Liu Bei and Li Su, this kind of thing "the old cow dies and collects rent" will only happen after at least 20 years of tuntian, and what Liu Bei has gained now is only pure people's hearts and gratitude.

Then, as Bethya said, give the people rations, seeds, and rent cattle in exchange for the harvest in the autumn. Zijing, you and Zitai (Tian Chou) are responsible for this matter, Zitai is an endless person, and he has served as the bookkeeper for several years. If the people are unwilling to accept this condition, they will not be reluctant. ”

Lu Su agreed: "Don't worry, Zitai and I will do our best, the government will save the people from fire and water with military rations, and the people are too late to be grateful to Dade, how can they dislike the high tax." ”

After Li Su and the others finished arranging, they added a reminder: "Brother not only arranges for the people to Tuntian, but also makes further preparations for the attack of the Wuhuan Difficult Cliff King." In my opinion, if the king knew that our army was a long-term plan, he would not come out to harass him during spring ploughing, and they would like us to have more food.

However, once the spring ploughing is over, the grain growth cycle in the north is long, and there is not much farming in the summer, I am afraid that the king of Nanqiao will make a plan to defeat our army and occupy the Tuntian area for the autumn harvest.

Last year, Zhang Ju and Qiu Liju were put together by our method of snatching and cutting green and yellow wheat, and since the grain shortage has been in place so far, they will not fail to learn a lesson. This year, they will definitely take advantage of the midsummer when even the green and yellow wheat has not been taxed, and occupy the Tuntian District in advance. We must be ready for field battles. ”

Li Su's words were recognized by most people, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei asked for their lives: "Big brother, if the king dares to go out of the city to fight in the field and destroy Tuntian, leave it to us." Let's cross the Xiaoyu River, we must intercept the King of Nanqiao on the east bank of the river, give him a head-on blow, and not let him threaten the Tuntian District in the west of the river. ”

Liu Bei thought for a while: "Boya, you and Yun Chang and Zilong are responsible for keeping an eye on the King of Nanqiao." Yide, you guard the Tunliang Water Village at the mouth of the Xiaoyushui River, and you must not lose in either place! No matter which grain point the King of Difficulty attacks, he must attack head-on! ”

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PS: A big chapter of 4,000 words, although there are two more today, at least the two chapters add up to more than 7,500 words, which is also a big chapter. The Mid-Autumn Festival is going to go out, so I changed it in advance. Tomorrow there will only be two shifts a day on the highway. On the 3rd, there will be three shifts a day.